Books
Coppedge, Michael, John Gerring, Adam N. Glynn, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Staffan I. Lindberg, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Svend-Erik Skaaning and Jan Teorell. 2020. Varieties of Democracy: Measuring Two Centuries of Political Change. Cambridge University Press.
Book Chapters
Lagunes, Paul and Brigitte Seim. 2021. “The State of Experimental Research on Corruption Control.” In Advances in Experimental Political Science, eds. Jamie Druckman and Donald Green. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 526-543.
Seim, Brigitte. 2016. “Information and Power: Ethical Considerations of Political Information Experiments.” In Ethics and Experiments: Problems and Solutions for Social Scientists and Policy Professionals, ed. Scott Desposato. London: Routledge, p. 183-197. Cited in this Washington Post Monkey Cage blog post.
Seim, Brigitte. 2015. “Voter Response to Scandal: Cashgate and the Malawian Election.” In Democracy Maturing? The 2014 Malawi Tripartite Elections, eds. Nandini Patel and Michael Wahman. Lilongwe: National Initiative for Civic Education, p. 215-235.
Journal Articles
Martin, Lucy, Brigitte Seim, Simon Hoellerbauer, and Luis Camacho. Forthcoming. “Marketing Taxation? Experimental Evidence on Enforcement and Bargaining in Malawian Markets.” American Political Science Review.
Baniya, Jeevan, Stephen Meserve, Daniel Pemstein and Brigitte Seim. Forthcoming. “Vote Buying and Local Public Goods Provision: Substitutes or Complements?” American Journal of Political Science.
Marquardt, Kyle L., Daniel Pemstein, Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca, Brigitte Seim, Steven Lloyd Wilson, Michael Bernhard, Michael Coppedge, and Staffan I. Lindberg. Forthcoming. “Experts, Coders, and Crowds: An Analysis of Substitutability.” International Political Science Review.
Baniya, Jeevan, Stephen Meserve, Daniel Pemstein and Brigitte Seim. 2024. “Understanding Vote Buying in Nepali Elections.” Electoral Studies 88(102766).
Jablonski, Ryan and Brigitte Seim. 2024. “What Politicians Don't Know Can Hurt You: The Effects of Information on Politicians' Spending Decisions.” American Political Science Review 118(3):1497-1517.
Knutsen, Carl Henrik, Kyle L. Marquardt, Brigitte Seim, Michael Coppedge, Amanda Edgell, Juraj Medzihorsky, Daniel Pemstein, Jan Teorell, John Gerring and Staffan I. Lindberg. 2024. “Conceptual and Measurement Issues in Assessing Democratic Backsliding.” PS: Political Science & Politics 57(2):162-177.
Mechkova, Valeriya, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, and Steven Wilson. 2024. “Measuring Online Political Activity: Introducing the Digital Society Project Dataset.” Journal of Information Technology & Politics 1-17.
Harris, Adam S., Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling, Kim Sass Mikkelsen, Christian Schuster, Brigitte Seim and Rachel Sigman. 2023. “Varieties of Connections, Varieties of Corruption: Evidence from Bureaucrats in Five Countries.” Governance 36(3):689-1005.
Mehta, Rupal and Brigitte Seim. 2023. “Avoiding ‘Checkbox Inclusion:’ Structuring Meaningful Inclusion of Underrepresented Groups in Policy Engagement.” PS: Political Science & Politics 56(1):133-136.
Cooperman, Alicia, Alexandra R. McLarty and Brigitte Seim. 2022. “Drivers of Successful Common-Pool Resource Management: A Conjoint Experiment on Groundwater Management in Brazil.” Global Environmental Change 74:102512.
McMann, Kelly, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim, Jan Teorell and Staffan I. Lindberg. 2022. “Assessing Data Quality: An Approach and An Application.” Political Analysis 30(3):426-449.
Cooperman, Alicia, Alexandra McLarty and Brigitte Seim. 2021. “Understanding Uptake of Community Groundwater Monitoring in Rural Brazil.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(29).
Slough, Tara, Daniel Rubenson, Ro’ee Levy, Francisco Alpizar Rodriguez, Maria Bernedo Del Carpio, Mark Buntaine, Darin Christensen, Alicia Cooperman, Sabrina Eisenbarth, Paul Ferraro, Louis Graham, Alexandra Hartman, Jacob Kopas, Alexandra McLarty, Alexandra Rigterink, Cyrus Samii, Brigitte Seim, Johannes Urpelainen and Bing Zhang. 2021. “Adoption of Community Monitoring Improves Common Pool Resource Management Across Contexts.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(29).
Shi, Weiyi and Brigitte Seim. 2021. “A Reputation Deficit? The Myths and Reality of Chinese Investment in Zambia.” Journal of East Asian Studies 21: 259-282.
Anders, Gerhard, Fidelis E. Kanyongolo and Brigitte Seim. 2020. “Corruption and the Impact of Law Enforcement: Insights from a Mixed-Methods Study in Malawi.” Journal of Modern African Studies 58(3).
Carlson, Elizabeth and Brigitte Seim. 2020. “Honor Among Chiefs: An Experiment on Monitoring and Diversion Among Traditional Leaders in Malawi.” Journal of Development Studies 56(8):1541-1557.
Harris, Adam, Brigitte Seim and Rachel Sigman. 2020. “Information, Accountability and Perceptions of Public Sector Programme Success: A Conjoint Experiment among Bureaucrats in Africa.” Development Policy Review 38(5):594-612.
McMann, Kelly, Brigitte Seim, Jan Teorell and Staffan I. Lindberg. 2020. “Why Low Levels of Democracy Promote Corruption and High Levels Diminish It.” Political Research Quarterly 73(4):893-907.
Seim, Brigitte, Ryan Jablonski and Johan Ahlbäck. 2020. “How Information about Foreign Aid Affects Public Spending Decisions: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Malawi.” Journal of Development Economics 146:102522.
Seim, Brigitte and Amanda Lea Robinson 2020. “Coethnicity and Corruption: Field Experimental Evidence from Public Officials in Malawi.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 7(1):61-66.
Knutsen, Carl Henrik, Jan Teorell, Tore Wig, Agnes Cornell, John Gerring, Haakon Gjerløw, Svend-Erik Skaaning, Daniel Ziblatt, Kyle L. Marquardt, Daniel Pemstein and Brigitte Seim. 2019. “Introducing the Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset: Political Institutions in the Long 19th Century.” Journal of Peace Research 56(3):440-451.
Marquardt, Kyle L., Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim and Yi-ting Wang. 2019. “What Makes Experts Reliable? Expert Reliability and the Estimation of Latent Traits.” Research & Politics 6(4):1-8.
Robinson, Amanda Lea and Brigitte Seim. 2018. “Who is Targeted in Corruption? Disentangling the Effects of Wealth and Power on Exposure to Bribery.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 13(3):313-331.
van Ham, Carolien and Brigitte Seim. 2017. “Strong States, Weak Elections? How State Capacity in Authoritarian Regimes Conditions the Democratizing Power of Elections.” International Political Science Review 39(1):49-66.
Enemark, Daniel, Clark Gibson, Matthew McCubbins and Brigitte Seim. 2016. “Power and Reciprocity: The Effect of Holding Office on Politician Behavior.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(48):13690-13695.
Obradovich, Nick and Brigitte Seim. 2016. “African Voters Indicate Lack of Support for Climate Change Policies.” Environmental Science & Policy 66:292-298.